Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 117.djvu/2605

 117 STAT. 2586

PUBLIC LAW 108–176—DEC. 12, 2003

SEC. 712. AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM.

Establishment.

Contracts.

Deadline.

Section 44511 is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: ‘‘(f) AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM.— ‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Transportation shall establish a 4-year pilot airport cooperative research program to— ‘‘(A) identify problems that are shared by airport operating agencies and can be solved through applied research but that are not being adequately addressed by existing Federal research programs; and ‘‘(B) fund research to address those problems. ‘‘(2) GOVERNANCE.—The Secretary of Transportation shall appoint an independent governing board for the research program established under this subsection. The governing board shall be appointed from candidates nominated by national associations representing public airport operating agencies, airport executives, State aviation officials, and the scheduled airlines, and shall include representatives of appropriate Federal agencies. Section 14 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act shall not apply to the governing board. ‘‘(3) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary of Transportation shall enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to provide staff support to the governing board established under paragraph (2) and to carry out projects proposed by the governing board that the Secretary considers appropriate. ‘‘(4) REPORT.—Not later than 6 months after the expiration of the program under this subsection, the Secretary shall transmit to the Congress a report on the program, including recommendations as to the need for establishing a permanent airport cooperative research program.’’.

TITLE VIII—MISCELLANEOUS SEC. 801. DEFINITIONS.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 47102 is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (19) and (20) as paragraphs (24) and (25), respectively; (2) by inserting after paragraph (18) the following: ‘‘(23) ‘small hub airport’ means a commercial service airport that has at least 0.05 percent but less than 0.25 percent of the passenger boardings.’’; (3) in paragraph (10) by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B) and inserting following: ‘‘(A) means, unless the context indicates otherwise, revenue passenger boardings in the United States in the prior calendar year on an aircraft in service in air commerce, as the Secretary determines under regulations the Secretary prescribes; and ‘‘(B) includes passengers who continue on an aircraft in international flight that stops at an airport in the 48 contiguous States, Alaska, or Hawaii for a nontraffic purpose.’’; (4) by redesignating paragraphs (10) through (18) as paragraphs (14) through (22), respectively;

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